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October 11, 1998|JIM SARNI Just for Sport

Nike is completely revamping its Tiger Woods line because golfers weren't buying the duds.

-- NBC, following the lead of the Fox network's hit specials on the secrets of magic, plans to air Exposed! Pro Wrestling's Greatest Secrets at 7 p.m. on Nov. 1. The New York Post says that eight wrestlers will don disguises to reveal how they pound on each other without getting hurt.

-- In its November issue, Sport spotlights "Supposedly Bad Dudes Who Do Good Things."Marge Schott, George Steinbrenner, Allen Iverson and Jerry Tarkanian are on the list.

-- Matthew McConaughey, a University of Texas alumnus, gave the Longhorns a pep talk that drew parallels between moviemaking and football, saying both require everyone to do their jobs well, from lighting coordinators to offensive linemen.

-- The Disney Channel makes its first foray into sports with Z Games, an original reality series for 1999 featuring new and innovative games designed by kids.

-- Kentucky Wildcat Basketball Experience is a new CD that features, interspersed between 16 new recordings of songs by the UK pep band, 23 memorable sound clips, including radio broadcasts of all-time Wildcats highlights, a rendition of My old Kentucky Home by former Kentucky Gov. A.B. ''Happy" Chandler and the 1992 farewell speech of longtime radio voice Cawood Ledford.

-- Michael Jordan's For The Love of the Game: My Story is excerpted in Vanity Fair.

-- A computer that attaches to exercise equipment is helping users work out and browse the Internet.

-- Former NFL great Doak Walker, who died last month, played football, basketball and baseball at SMU. "Other than golf, I never really tried a sport that, inside of 30 minutes, I couldn't play pretty good," Walker once said.

-- CBS' Craig James suggests that Lou Holtz return to coaching at Rutgers.

Trivia How far did Mark McGwire's 70 home runs travel?

Say what "I don't go to work, I go to a game."- Legendary New York Yankees and Giants public address announcer Bob Sheppard.